Cyberpunk 2.0

is about cultures in our time. A book about all the ruptures that shaked a world that thought itself as the future of the past in its rational and optimistic foreseeability concerning the idea of progress.
A world that defined itself according to the happy days to come and suddenly discovers itself as if in another planet or even a different solar system.
Everything not only changed but became unrecognizable as the author shows us here, both by his exhaustive knowledge of the different subjects and his undeniable ability to explain the different problems that can be shown. The paradigms of thinking are very substantially changing.
It’s an unrecognizable world for those coming from the past in History and thought. The rhizomatic proliferation, once so discreetly announced by Deleuze, it is now in the centre of any possibility to understand what happened.
What culture may be is no more thinkable according to a vertical, arborescent model. Rather a proliferant, non hierarchic, horizontality is what may better describe where culture expands itself in fragments.
Fragmentation seems to be one of the dominant categories in this world shown to us by Herlander Elias. Nothing is whole and that isn’t what it is pretended. Diversity admits only provisory and less definitive connections. A proliferant fragmentation of the cultural paradigm admits but an attitude not far from the nomadic wandering.
All our classic distinctions, always hierarchic, between permanent and transitory, center and periphery, essential and its contrary, will dissolve in this unmarked context.
Action and behavior are also affected by new imaginations congruent with all of that. If fragmentation and being precarious are the principles of a new universe, in what can those imaginaries support themselves if not in a permanent and nomadic search?
An entire geography will vanish because the landscape is unrecognizable as in Blade Runner’s city. And not only the city, the body itself is redesigned by new geographies in which the cyborg is built.
If it is true that everything continues to be systematic, what disappears is its organizing centre, understandable by our everyday familiarity made of habitudes. Because it is also reality in itself which disappears before our recognition.